liven things up", said The Scotsman, “…too much verbiage, conversational psychotherapy." Menage Morrison's third novel Menage, is about three dysfunctional artists living a life of debauched squalor within a bisexual ménage à trois in the artistic subculture of '90s London. Scotland on Sunday said, “Menage is an accomplished, often poignant, novel…[that] strives to go beyond corrosive irony and world-weary cynicism to recapture a sense of the possibilities of love". The novel innovates with the form of the triad, alternating between the formats of art reviews, past tense confessional memoir and third person present tense. Morrison based the novel on his experiences within the fashionable nihilistic circles of the New British Art Scene in his years after art school. Close Your Eyes Close Your Eyes became Morrison's most highly acclaimed novel to date. The story concerns a woman, Rowan, who was brought up in a hippie commune in the 1960s and 1970s, returning twenty-five years later to search for the mother who abandoned her. Bestselling author Christos Tsioklas said, "It takes us right to the heart of the turbulent social changes that defined our last quarter century and it is a revealing honest, searing novel about mothers and children, about what it means to be part of a family. The story, the writing, the moral intelligence: all of it is a knockout.' The Daily Record called it a "mesmerising saga of survival. Disturbing. Outstanding. Written with exquisite emotional perception". While the Guardian described it as "A powerful, moving exploration of New Age life that charts a woman's struggle to look after her child while searching for her own mother". Close Your Eyes won Morrison the Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize in 2014 and brought him the Writer of the Year Award of the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards in 2012. Morrison has, in interview and articles, described the book as a partly autobiographical reaction to 'coming to terms with a hippy childhood' and being raised by political extremists. Tales from the Mall In the same year Morrison published Tales from the Mall – “'a mash-up of fact, fiction, essays and multi-format media that tells of the rise of the shopping mall, an iconic symbol of our age". Douglas Coupland said "Morrison continues Ballard's tradition of locating menace beneath the sleekness and shine of post industrial life. A truly interesting book". James Frey called it a "new form of